There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.